It’s hard to review a place that’s really about the company, so here’s a little experiment. I live-blogged around 45 minutes of conversation at the guys’ place…

This review was written a couple of weeks ago.

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Parking

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Italian Football:
M: “Inter Milan has only one Italian player, and he’s not even Italian, he’s black.”
Margharita: “Shut up! I don’t like this new habit of always picking on Italian football. I’m staying here for the World Cup, and I don’t like you guys anymore, you keep bitching about us Italians! I’m not going to hang out with you, I’m going to start hanging out with Italians!”
M: “Italians ruined the game!”
Philipp: “Yeah, they’re always reminiscing. Roberto Bajio was blah blah. COME ON.”
M: “Oh screw it, in 1982 they dedicated the World Cup to the PLO and that’s all that matters.”

Hitler Spoofs on YouTube:
M: “Did you know that the Hitler spoofs are being taken off YouTube?”
Philipp: “It’s so stupid because the producer wants them out. It’s the best viral marketing for the movie ever, no one else would have watched it otherwise.”
Hammoudeh: “Actually Zeid watched it.”
M: “They did it for so many things… iPad, Egypt vs. Algeria…”
Ibra: “Comic Sans.”
M: “Arab Net!”
Margharita: “Because it’s humanizing Hitler?”
Philipp: “No, because of some copyright issues.”

Damn German Products:
Roba: “This German browser is the best way to learn German, Phil. But now it’s not doing anything.”
Philipp: “What are you trying to do?”
Roba: “Upload a picture, and it’s not uploading.”
Philipp: “What do you keep pressing?”
Roba: “Bruchnen, it’s in the same place where Upload should be in the English interface. I’ve been pressing for the past five minutes.”
Philipp: “That’s because it means ‘Cancel’.”
Roba: “Oops.”

Guns:
M: “Is it true that you can’t buy waterguns in Germany?”
Philipp:  “No, that’s so stupid. Who told you that?”
M: “Hammoudeh.”
Hammoudeh: “No, I didn’t say that!!!”
M: “You did!”

Conversation About Religion:
Roba:  “Guys stop it, I don’t like this conversation, cause I can’t blog it.”

Conversation About Homosexuality:
Laden.
Roba:  “Guys, you’re doing it again.”
Margharita: “But these things are all we talk about.”
Roba:  “But they’re not blogging stuff.”
Philipp: “Maybe you should have a logged in version for your blog.”

The iPad:
M: “Eish 7abeebti?”
Roba:  “I’m waiting for something interesting to be said.”
Ibra: “THE IPAD! Today, we touched an iPad.”
Hammoudeh: “What? Here in Jordan?”
Ibra: “Yeah, it’s pretty cool.”
Hammoudeh: “Mac’s suck.”
Margharita: “Don’t say that Hammoudeh, you might get kicked out.”
Ibra: “Actually, I’m starting to question my stance on Apple, because of this whole HTML5 shit. I like Flash. Steve Jobs is being an ass.” Blabs about very technical shit for five minutes.
Ibra: “I mean flash is an era, they can’t do that.”
Zeid: “YouTube!”
Ibra: “YouTube is actually now using HTML5.”
Hammoudeh: “I want an iPad.”
Ibra: “But the response was really bad today, there was a delay with the touch.”
M: “Yeah, I hate it, they’re like the new Microsoft. We don’t like you anymore, so we’re going to screw you over.”
Hammoudeh: “Now, they’re doing that with Google too because they’re entering the phone market.”
Philipp: “Although G1 came way before iPhone.”
Zeid: “The iMate?”
Hammoudeh: “Dude, that’s Microsoft.”
More technical blabber.
Margharita:  “Why do you guys know all these things?”
M: “Paris Hilton was huge on the SideKick.”
Margharita:  “Is text messaging still in?”
M: “It has an aggegator on its mainpage for all the Social Media sites, that’s why.”
Philipp: “But all the Android phones had that.”
Roba: “Phil, I’m so proud of you, you’re liking Google.”
Ibra: “Did you guys see the guy who lost his iPhone in the bar?”
Philipp: “A GERMAN BAR.”
M: “Gizmodo shalu amalo, shala7u il iPhone.”

Conversation on 3D TV that I’m not going to bore you with
Hammoudeh: “You don’t have HDTV in Italy?”
Philipp: “Dude, are you in Jordan?”
Hammoudeh:“Screw you they’ve had HDTV in Japan for 20 years!”

Jordanian Vodka:
Hammoudeh: “There is vodka without a smell.”
M: “Yeah, a Jordanian invention. JORDANIANS invented SMELLLESS VODKA! Yeah, right.”
Zeid: “Puke and go.”
Philipp: “It’s just brilliant marketing.”
M: “It’s an alcoholic’s stunt. YOU CAN’T CREATE ALCOHOL WITHOUT A SMELL.”
Hammoudeh: “It’s a Seinfeld episode.”
M: “Oh, God, that doesn’t make sense.”

Intermission:
M: “What are you writing about this conversation?”
I read it.
M: “OH GOD YOU’RE MAKING STUFF UP.”
Philipp: “Yeah, you should stop this!”

Zeid: “Ka eni kteer joo3an.”
Zeid has been eating all night, which is why there isn’t many things coming from his mouth.

National Anthem:
M: “Oh, wow, so cool, you guys live so close to the flag. I feel so Jordanian.”
Margharita:  “Yeah, we even wake up every day to the National Anthem thanks to AlKulyeh El-Elmeyeh Il Aslameyeh.”
M: “Do they play Jeishana after the National Anthem?”
Hammoudeh: “Whatever happened to Mawtini after the National Anthem?”
Margharita:  “They used to do that, but now they only do the National Anthem.”
M: “We had a really nice anthem at school. Wataneyan Orthodoxy… ‘I’m a National Orthodox. I’m for my country, I am proud. 3areenan lil Komah’”
Hammoudeh: “Shu Komah?”
M: “Ma ba3ref. What’s the Italian national anthem?”
Margharita:  “We never sing it.” (but she sings it anyway)
M: “The American one is so bad. It’s so hard to sing. You have to have like a nice voice and shit. I always thought God Bless America was the national anthem.”

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